Quantification of conflict in Dempster-Shafer framework: A new approach

International Journal of General Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 407-423

  George, Thomas ^a   Pal, Nikhil R ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Conflict measure

Indexed keywords

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METRIC SYSTEM; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CONFLICT MEASURE; DEMPSTER-SHAFER FRAMEWORK;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0029753155     PISSN: 03081079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03081079608945130     Document Type: Article

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